Diwakar Raj — Software Engineering Manager

SUMMARY

Technical Lead Manager with 8+ years in enterprise software and team leadership, specializing in AI integration and identity security — from LLM inference on GPUs to SSO and OAuth 2.0. Increased deployment frequency 60% through standardized delivery, and cut infrastructure costs 35% while tripling load capacity via cloud microservices migration.

EXPERIENCE

Software Engineering Manager

Morae | Jan 2026 – Present · Bengaluru

Lead 12 engineers across 3 product teams building Moral, Morae's AI-powered contract intelligence platform (Next.js, NestJS, MongoDB, Python).
Shipped LLM-powered clause extraction to production — architected the inference pipeline on NVIDIA A10 GPUs, benchmarking quantized open-weight models (Qwen3-14B AWQ, Gemma) to fit a 24GB memory budget without sacrificing quality.
Made platform-level build-vs-buy decisions for the AI stack: evaluated vector stores (AWS S3 Vectors vs OpenSearch hybrid search) and selected CIAM architecture (Entra External ID / WorkOS) for the B2B customer base.
Increased deployment frequency by 60% across 3 teams by standardising trunk-based delivery with mandatory code reviews, unit-test automation, and CI/CD quality gates.
Reduced infrastructure costs by 35% and improved load capacity 3× by architecting the cloud microservices migration.
Built the engineering organisation: designed structured hiring loops and hired across ML engineering, full-stack, product, and design.
Unified product UX by driving adoption of a centralised design-token system (shadcn/UI, Tailwind) across frontend teams.

Associate Manager, Engineering

Morae | Jul 2024 – Jan 2026 · Bengaluru

Reduced release cycle time by 40% (commit-to-production lead time) by architecting a new application with a complete CI/CD pipeline and automated test coverage.
Achieved 100% on-time quarterly milestone delivery while managing and mentoring a team of 6 engineers in Agile/Scrum.
Designed the cloud microservices architecture and wrote technical specifications adopted as the team-wide standard.

Full-Stack Developer

Morae | May 2023 – Jun 2024 · Bengaluru

Improved client contract-processing efficiency by 30% by developing a contract management solution from conception to production on Node.js.
Shipped enhancements across multiple product modules in iterative cycles with Product, Design, and QA.

Software Engineer — Identity & Access Management

Deloitte | Jul 2021 – Apr 2023 · Bengaluru

Reduced security vulnerabilities by 50% by leading development of an enterprise identity product implementing SSO, CIAM, OAuth 2.0, and JWT-based authentication for Fortune 500 clients.
Cut login latency by 35% by optimising authentication flows, session handling, and encryption.
Raised secure-coding adherence across the team through authentication protocol and encryption standards.

Full-Stack Developer

Xelpmoc Design & Tech | Feb 2019 – Jul 2021 · Kolkata

Sustained 99.9% uptime for a client product serving 50K+ daily active users on Node.js, Angular, MongoDB, and SQL.
Delivered the project 2 weeks early and 15% under budget; engagement closed with a 98% client satisfaction score.

Full-Stack Developer

Claire.ai & Alienhu | Dec 2017 – Feb 2019 · Kolkata / Dandeli

Developed full-stack features in React, Node.js, and Express across 5+ production applications serving 10K+ monthly users.
Increased mobile engagement by 45% by implementing responsive UI components across projects.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

60%

More frequent deployments across three teams via CI/CD and code-review standards

35% · 3×

Lower infrastructure cost, triple load capacity, through microservices migration

100%

On-time quarterly milestone delivery while managing a team of six

50%

Fewer security vulnerabilities via SSO / OAuth 2.0 identity product for Fortune 500 clients